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‘Satya’ embarks on social reform and pays with his life
New teledrama ‘Satya’ is a story about a young doctor.
‘Satya Sahabandu’ a young doctor leaves for his first appointment to a village in a remote area, Ve Gaha Pandura.

He finds the hospital in a state of neglect and Satya realizes that the administration as well as the health services are not at a satisfactory level. Therefore he takes steps to reprimand the health workers and the labourers in the hope of taking stern measurers regarding their neglect of duty. This causes conflict and a strike results.

Satya as a result faces many ordeals. Yet Satya is daring enough to confront the apothecary as well as the thugs who are carrying on a thriving illicit liquor business. Thus Satya makes an enemy of Hichchi Mahattaya the leader of the thugs in the village.

Satya organises the youth to make house-to-house surveys and awareness programmes to curb an epidemic that breaks out with the onset of a drought. This makes the villagers accept him and he becomes quite popular in the village.

And this frightens the politicians of the area as they think the motive behind Satya’s social service is a path to enter politics. What happens to Satya or ‘truth’ as his name implies. It is what invariably happens to truth. He is mysteriously murdered.

Suminda Sirisena, Gihan Fernando, Gnananga Gunawardena, H. A. Perera, Gangu Roshana, Sarath Kotalawela, Cyril Wickremage, Rex Kodippili, Priyankara Ratnayake, Roger Seneviratne and Richard Weerakkody are in the cast in this miniplay directed by Sarath Dharmasiri and Michael Fonseka. ‘Satya’ is telecast every Saturday at 8.35 pm on National Rupavahini.

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